Le Dictionnaire universel des Créatrices


Forty centuries of women’s creation worldwide in all the fields of human history, art, culture and science.

An unprecedented contribution to the world's cultural heritage



Half-epic, half-history, may this Dictionnaire universel, this gesture to the glory of women, take part in the education of posterity.

Antoinette Fouque

A pioneering encyclopedic dictionary that intends to identify known or unknown creators who, individually or together, have marked their time and opened new ways in one of the fields of human activity.

Its study site covers all continents, all eras, all the traditional repertoire of disciplines and it extends from sports to political women, through interpreters, storytellers, craftswomen, even if they are anonymous.


Started in paper version in 2010, this encyclopedia was then converted to ebook version, and today it is fully accessible on this website, and updated regularly.

Prefaces
Mireille Calle-Gruber

Rehabilitating what had been despised because it was done by women, we have seen come to light, with their works, the marks of remarkable intellectual, political or scientific courage. We need only think of the difficulties that girls […] have had to overcome to attain education, study, go to College, …
Béatrice Didier

For a long time, I had been shocked by a main injustice : dictionaries, be they about literature, art, music, have but a small slot for women creators […]. But, if some dictionaries have been slow to update, a select few groups of researchers from all over the world have discovered that these women’s creations are much more abundant than what had been said until now.
Irina Bokova

Director General of UNESCO

This Dictionnaire des femmes créatrices is a work that will be a landmark, through its ambition and its determination to shed light on the women actors of creation throughout history and the world. […] A work like this one was needed to pay tribute to the diversity of women creators and to hail their contribution to civilization and world culture.

 
Antoinette Fouque

Today, we have become poets and we are writing our condition ourselves. Here, we sing gestation and fertile women, the movement par excellence that displaces lines, that weeps, that laughs, that sings and that comes to life, the desire for permanent creation in every woman’s body – a piece of needlework or a work of genius, in a petit point tapestry as in pregnancy. Accomplishment – endless incompletion.
Scientific Direction
Editorial Direction